TorrentSpider webapp, search torrent across multiple providers

[damaera]

TorrentSpider is a web application that can search torrent across multiple providers.
Built with React.js ( create-react-app ). The website is live here http://torrentspider.ga

Available providers are

• ThePirateBay
• KickassTorrents
• TorrentProject
• Rarbg
• Torrent9
• Torrentz2
• 1337x
• ExtraTorrent

Developing

API

This project use API that I made using Glitch. You can see the API source code here:
https://glitch.com/~torrent-search
the API itself use express.js and npm packeage torrent-search-api. I just use the public providers.

const TorrentSearchApi = require('torrent-search-api');
const torrentSearch = new TorrentSearchApi(); 
torrentSearch.enablePublicProviders();

and then in express routing

app.get("/search", function (req, res) {
  var query = req.query.q || ''
  var limit = req.query.limit || 20
  var category = req.query.category || ''
  
  torrentSearch.search(query)
    .then(torrents => {
      res.json(torrents)
    })
  });

Front-end

The website is a single-page application built with React. I'm using create-react-app for bootstrapping my project. I just make it as simple as possible for making users easy to search. So I just made few components.

And i'm using react-coin-hive for monetizing my website.

Deploying

I use Netlify for deploying this web-app. Buying free domain at freenom.
And here we go.
http://torrentspider.ga

How to contribute?

You can fork the project, and install it locally. Then use this styleguide for contributing. https://github.com/airbnb/javascript/tree/master/react

Future

The only issues here is server performance. It took several seconds for me to completing search request. Since the api is served from glitch which is free server.

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Thank you and happy torrenting

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Comments

[mkt]

Thank you for the contribution. It has been approved.

You should mention that the site uses coinhive.

You can contact us on Discord.
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[damaera]

okay, the article is updated

[mkt]

Thanks! I personally would also add a note to the website. The official implementation example even includes an opt-in dialogue. Look here: https://markus-kottlaender.de

[damaera]

okay, is that feature provided by coinhive ?

[mkt]

yes, here: https://coinhive.com/documentation/miner
you don't have to use this... of course this will drop the number of miners dramatically ;)
but I just prefer this transparent approach instead of just silently using the visitors cpu power.

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